Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lobbies, in the cloak room no non-Japanese spoke to Pariah Matsuoka. Impassive, he clipped a cigar, struck a match, puffed air mechanically, threw away the match, walked out unconscious that his cigar had failed to light. Cameras clicked. Cinemachines whirred. Up swept a bright limousine with the flag of the rising sun streaming from its radiator cap. Stepping in, with the cold cigar still clenched between his teeth, Japan's Matsuoka was whisked to his hotel, consoled his crestfallen staff that night with a champagne supper. His next duty, having defied the world, was to report home...
From the mainmast of the new 10,000-ton cruiser Augusta flew the three-starred flag of Vice Admiral Frank H. Clark, the Scouting Force's commander. Astern steamed the Navy's newest and best men-o'-war-the heavy cruisers Salt Lake City, Chicago, Chester, Louisville, Northampton, Pensacola. Spread out in the van were 13 destroyers, their needle-like hulls wallowing in the long blue swell, their stacks belching inky smoke. The 33,000-ton aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, each with fourscore planes on her flat back or in her cavernous belly, completed the procession...
...German police banned open air Communist meetings throughout the Reich, suppressed all Communist sheets in the industrial Ruhr, suppressed the Berlin Communist organ The Red Flag and 16 others, suppressed the historic Socialist Vorwärts for three days and confiscated as "treasonable" 1,000,000 copies of a special edition which Vorwärts published to open the Socialist election campaign...
...until shortly after noon on March 4, will the country see directly and officially into the Presidential mind of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. At that hour he will plant himself on a flag-draped platform on the East steps of the Capitol and deliver his inaugural address to his countrymen, forgotten and otherwise...
...flagman swings his lamp, or his flag or hand, in a vertical circle at half-arm's length across the track. The engineer blows three short blasts, his indication that he has understood the signal to back.* Then he throws the locomotive into reverse. If he has a power reverse gear he just turns a little wheel, steam doing the rest. If he has a hand reverse gear he has to push hard and knows that the antic steam may kick the lever and break...